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Non-Research Citations in the Siemens Research Study

Defending himself against my criticism of his recently released research study on distance and online learning, George Siemens tweets:

Au contraire mon frère. There are many non-research articles cites, with a particular preference toward foundations, consultants, a few blogs and news and magazine articles. The non-research citations are as selective and ill-informed as the formal citations.

Personally, I have no objection to citing from supposedly non-research sites; I do it all the time.But I don't do it while claiming to not be doing it.

Here they are, collected from the references at the end of the various articles:

Allen, C. (2004). Life with alacrity: Tracing the evolution of social software. Retrieved from
http://www.citeulike.org/group/1218/article/1613220

Learned, W. S., & Wood, B. D. (1938). The student and his knowledge: A report to the
Carnegie Foundation on the results of the high school and college examinations
of 1928, 1930, and 1932. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching.

McGuire, R. (2014). Hacking the hacker school: How the bootcamp is being taken to
scale outside the coding world. Retrieved December 20, 2014, from http://
venturebeat.com/2014/06/26/hacking-the-hacker-school-how-the-bootcamp-isbeing-
taken-to-scale-outside-the-coding-world/

Naughton, J. (2012, December 29). LinkedIn endorsements turn you into the
product. Retrieved January 16, 2015, from http://www.theguardian.com/
technology/2012/dec/30/linkedin-endorsements-turn-you-into-the-product